The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


vice Commission, has written an important
letter concerning the appointing and dis
charging power.
AT three O'Clock on the morning Of the
| Sth Jacob Albiec, well-to-do citizen, of
Omaha, Neb., shothis wife and then killed
himself The wife was shot in the right
breast, the ball going through her body
and lodging under the skin below the right
shoulder. She was alive at last accounts.
A DISPATCH from London, Ont, says:
"Israel Lucas, the defaulting treasurer of
Auglaize County, o., who absconded Au-
gust q last with $3l 900, is supposed to be
in this city with his second wife, who fled
with him to Canada, and Detective John
t. Norris is here on their trial"
HENRY BECKER, aged seventy, was shot
and fatally wounded at Shenandoah, Pa,
on the Sth, by Nicholas Knebels. The lat
ter had been paying unwelcome attention
to Becker's daughter, and was ordered out
of the house, but refused to go, and during
a scufhe Becker was shot, There is not
much hope of Becker's recovery.
THE next International Medical Con-
gress will be held in Berlin in 1890
JOHN THOMAS Ross. known as the black
"burker," was hanged on the 9th at Balti
more, Md.
THE report comes from Homburg that
Mr. Blaine told Banker Seligman that he
would not accept the presidency as gift.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT has refused to re.
lease Mrs. Fanny B. Roberts without bail.
She is held on charge of receiving $4,000
of the money stolen by Teller Scott, of the
Manhattan Bank.
SPEAKER CARLISLE says he has made no
answer to Thoebe because the latter has
presented no case.
A CALIFORNIAN named Redstone tried
to enjoin the United States Treasurer
from buying any more United States
bonds.
JAY GOULD says he has left the street
but if he has to, he will go in again and
'hang somebody's hide on the fence"
THE court-martial which sat on Lienten-
ant Weber's case at Washington has adj
journed sine die, but the finding has not
been made public yet.
JERRY COLLINS, who is serving a life
! sentence in the Missouri penitentary for
wife.murder, has been recommended for
pardon by the State prison inspectors.
COLONEL THOMAS o. SULLY, aged seven
ty, for many years chief Inspector of the
! New Orleans Cotton Exchange, committed
suicide on the 9th by drowning.
COLONEL LAMONT has returned to Wash
? ington from his vacation in New York
1 State, and was at the executive mansion
= on the afternoon of the 9th.
JAS. HERMEs, German, aged fifty
r eight years, shot himself in the temple OF
the 9th at his home in Broom street
Newark, N, j. He had been in New Yorl
:. for two days on a spree. The physicians
say he can not live.
! THE coroner who investigated the dealt
from poisoning of Mrs. Mcintyre, o
Chilli, o., has entirely exonerated her hus
band from blame, as he also came nea
!. dying from drinking from the same pc
of coffee. The verdict was death from
f poison administered by unknown parties
f BISHOP IRELAND says the Cathol
d church has ceased opposition to tn
Knights of Labor.
SPADE SUNSHINE was hanged at Table
Y quah, l. T., on the 9th in the Nation
v al prison yard. He was convicted
/: of the murder of Long John in the Sequoyal
), district last Christmas night. He Shove,
o no sign of fear and was nervy to the last
II FIRE starting in the cellar of Timoth,
square of Nashville, Tenn on the 9th
d destroyed both buildings, each tire
Z stories high. The stock of goods
l. valued at $3.50, 900 was half destroyed, an
|, the remainder badly damaged by fire an,
70 water. Insured for 100000.
d WHILE Peter Rentz, stonecutter, form
erly a resident of st. Louis, was at wor
in an excavation in Kansas City on tn
,. 9th, stone weighing several tons fel
80 from above on him, crushing him into
- shapeess mass and killing him instantly
70 THOMAS KELLY, Michael Grove and an
. other man named Walters were burie
b" alive on the evening of the 9th, in the ney
aqueduct at North Workers, n. Y. Tn
I. earth above caved in on them. They Ii
"a under 100 feet of earth, and there is n
! possible chance of their having escape,
! instant death.
) A SERIES of systematic customs fraud
a. is being investigated in New York.
WHILE ascending a flight of stairs in th
hotel at Hurricane, u small town in Pu
s. nam County, W. Va, on the 9th, Re,
w William Tully fell. A pistol in his poke
le was discharged, and he was fatally sho
Ia The bullet entered the body near his heal
It. and he died in a few minutes. He wa
ne thirty years of age.
THE casting of the stem of the ne
United States cruiser Charleston, now be
OF ing built at San Francisco, has been SUI
lg cessfully accomplished. The steel sterl
w post was cast June %, but the casting
as the stem was a greater feat, the latte
he weighing fully 10000 pounds, 1t is said
IS be the largest casting ever made on tn
continent.
THE railroad shops, store-rooms an
III machinery of the Chicago, ST. Paul
~ Milwaukee road at Yankton, Oak, wei
VI burned at midnight of the 9th, fam,
~ catching from an engine that was beiu
Vi cleaned Two locomotives were damag
u to the extent of 5000. Total loss, $4,000
insured.
RUSSIA informs the Powers that Prime
q Ferdinand must quit as ruler of Bulgari
-, as his rulership is in violation of the Be
- lin treaty, or else she will disregard Il
:; entire treaty and take her own way of II
| moving the Dretender